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by cannam 6y ago
Gosh, this is educational. I've always assumed (as a happy Olympus user) that m43 was mostly a photography format, and video people were all using Canons. I've recently been hooking up my Olympus as a webcam, through tedious neces
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by cannam 6y ago
Not very familiar with video - what M43 camera do you use for that?
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by cannam 6y ago
I think only Panasonic and Olympus make M43 bodies, so effectively yes, Panasonic is now the only one - though there are a few other companies making lenses still. The bodies are presumably going to be the more difficult thing to replace. I
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by cannam 6y ago
Does yours have the discrete GPU option? Mine doesn't, and I imagine that could make a big difference thermally.
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by cannam 6y ago
> A brutalist skyscraper would look oppressive and imposing, towering above you like a Vogon ship about to demolish your planet to build a hyperspace lane. This is kind of my point though - Nature is like that. A daunting slab of concret
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by cannam 6y ago
> > Brutalism has become popular with many people of my age. > Has it really? Have you lived in any of the places you mentioned and consider nice? I can't afford to. I do know people who live in the Barbican estate, at least,
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by cannam 6y ago
Oh! That's interesting, I'm not sure I knew they existed. Mine is dual core and quite fast (for the time) but definitely 32-bit only. Maybe I should look for a fancier one, if only to pick up the motherboard and CPU from. I imagin
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by cannam 6y ago
Good to see Dunelm House in Durham listed there - one of my favourite buildings in any style, that has been threatened with demolition for a few years now.
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by cannam 6y ago
> Post WWI we see architecture completely incapable of producing stuff ordinary people like. In fact it would appear the opposite, architects secretly revel in designing stuff ordinary people hate. Yet there was an explosion of high qual
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by cannam 6y ago
I like Brutalism, and I speculate that one reason is that I grew up in a rural area where things are big, surfaces are rough, and there aren't decorative brickwork patterns everywhere. I live in London now, and the brutalist Barbican e
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by cannam 6y ago
The T60 with that wonderful 1400x1050 screen is fab, I agree. (I wrote a sibling comment about using a 2014 Thinkpad as my main box, but I also have some older ones.) The main problem with it from a modern perspective is that it's stri
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by cannam 6y ago
> I have a Thinkpad that I purchased in early 2014 that is still going strong Indeed an early 2014 Thinkpad is my main work development box. It's a T540p with the excellent 3K matte screen. Admittedly I use it like a desktop compute
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by cannam 6y ago
I'm really enjoying all this. I don't care about Hey and I'm not an iOS user, but I would love to see this situation, which represents something increasingly accepted as normal but that none of us quite understand, forced int
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by cannam 6y ago
I rather like it. Probably because it strikes me as something my kids would find funny, and a bit of that affection wears off on it. Can't see myself using Hey for other reasons, but that one at least is ok with me.
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by cannam 6y ago
A curious thought experiment here is: what would the situation be in the case of a hypothetical third-party app that provided access to your Hey email? (I mean via some API that Hey offered - I think they don't actually offer one, but
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by cannam 6y ago
Fira Code is a big job (with so many ligatures) and working on it obviously takes great care, but let's not pretend that the same author is responsible for the font as a whole - unless you know something about Fira Mono that I don&#x27
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by cannam 6y ago
I came to the comments expecting lots of (irrelevant, I know) complaints about the painfully bright yellow background of the article - but nobody has mentioned it yet. Is it serving different colours to different people, or am I unusually s
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by cannam 6y ago
Metropolis (2001), directed by Rintaro with screenplay by Katsuhiro Otomo (the Akira director). Phenomenal set illustrations, unusual character animation that intentionally harks back to the 1950s or earlier, and a fab soundtrack. The plot
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by cannam 6y ago
> An astoundingly cheap and surprisingly good fountain pen ($4) is the Japanese-made Platinum Preppy F I just wrote a comment praising cheap Platinum pens as well (though mine's not that cheap!) They must be on to something. > I
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by cannam 6y ago
Much as I like fountain pens (they're more or less the only pens I use) I have a suspicion they're a bit like a mini version of hi-fi - you can spend an arbitrary amount on admittedly beautifully made objects, which you then have
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by cannam 6y ago
That's nonsense, and I'm ashamed to have written a comment that could yield a reply like this. If that is also how my comment reads, then I am sorry. The original article is a good one. The author is obviously not at all clueless.
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by cannam 6y ago
An 8G Pi-4 is a pretty powerful computer by Linux-running historical standards. This seems really about application compatibility, not power.
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by cannam 6y ago
Although not wrong, and full of interesting details, this is a really puzzling article. It feels a little like writing about how you couldn't get your toaster to boil noodles. (Though not as unsafe.) I use Linux as my main desktop and
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by cannam 6y ago
Not much here about how clear or appealing the results are, aesthetically. In that respect, I think the rules are quite successful. Many years ago, I made friends with a Japanese person while we were both rambling in New Zealand, and we wro
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by cannam 6y ago
> Apparently, nothing was catching that exception, so the whole process was terminated. Apposite moment perhaps to refer to the mind-boggling finding in "Simple Testing Can Prevent Most Critical Failures: An Analysis of Production F
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by cannam 6y ago
Oh that's interesting. That might be an extra reason why devices are still preferentially coming with USB3 type A plugs on the other end - it's actually more flexible that way? I am in fact plugging both of my new USB-C devices in
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by cannam 6y ago
> I still don't have anything that's USB-C aside from adapters for work laptop The USB-C thing is culturally a bit curious. It's been three or four years since reviewers of laptops and the like started complaining if they
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by cannam 6y ago
Same here - I've pinned my Linux machines to Firefox 74 for the moment, in the no-doubt vain hope that someone upstream will see sense before too long. I was previously using the option (that was removed in Firefox 75) to make the URL
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by cannam 6y ago
To say no one cared is going too far, but it is interesting to think about why something like this was able to happen. There were various technical and structural factors making it difficult to fix. Weather feeds were known to be problemati
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by cannam 6y ago
Reminds me of when I worked at Yahoo, for not very long in the early 2000s. Yahoo had a consumer product called My Yahoo, a customisable home page with various feeds in it, and at the time they also had a My Yahoo Enterprise Edition, which

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